2026 AFL Season Round 21: Greater Western Sydney v Sydney

This is the match report for the match played on 25 July 2026 between Greater Western Sydney and Sydney during round twenty-one of the 2026 season of the Australian Football League. Greater Western Sydney hosted Sydney at ENGIE Stadium. Callum Mills captained the visitors with Isaac Heeney as vice-captain. The hosts were coached by Adam Kingsley and the visitors were coached by Dean Cox.

Greater Western Sydney (13.10.88) were defeated by Sydney (21.13.139).

Match Details

Season: 2026 AFL Season
Round: Round 21
Teams: Greater Western Sydney v Sydney
Date: Saturday 25 July 2026
Time: 4:35 PM
Venue: ENGIE Stadium
Attendance: 20,141

Match Results

Outcome: Greater Western Sydney def. by Sydney
Score: 13.10.88 - 21.13.139

Quarter Breakdown

	Q1			Q2			Q3			Q4			Final
Greater Western Sydney	2	.	1	4	.	4	8	.	7	13	.	10	13	.	10	(88)
Sydney	7	.	4	12	.	9	17	.	10	21	.	13	21	.	13	(139)
Margin	SYDN by 33			SYDN by 53			SYDN by 57			SYDN by 51			SYDN by 51
Duration	33:19			32:49			31:30			33:35			2:11:13

Score Worm

This chart is oriented such that the margin is positive when the hosts (Greater Western Sydney) are in the lead and is negative when the visitors (Sydney) are in the lead.

Honour Roll

Greater Western Sydney

Captain: unknown
Coach: Adam Kingsley

Sydney

Captain: Callum Mills
Vice-Captain: Isaac Heeney
Coach: Dean Cox

Brownlow Votes

Player	Team	#	Votes
Errol Gulden	SYDN	21	3
Chad Warner	SYDN	1	2
Isaac Heeney	SYDN	5	1

AFLCA Champion Votes

Player	Team	#	Votes	5	4	3	2	1

Player Statistics

Greater Western Sydney

#	Player	Pos.	ToG%	GL	BH	DI	KI	HB	MK	HO	TA	CL	CR	FF	FA	RF	IF
9	Angwin, Ryan	WL	78%	2	0	21	12	9	4	0	2	4	3	1	1	0	5
7	Ash, Lachie	HBFR	82%	0	0	26	18	8	8	0	2	0	2	0	0	10	2
14	Bedford, Toby	RO	84%	0	2	14	7	7	4	0	5	1	3	1	2	0	2
46	Brown, Callum	INT	69%	1	0	5	2	3	3	5	2	0	0	0	0	1	2
5	Cadman, Aaron	FF	84%	1	1	9	8	1	3	0	2	0	3	3	1	0	2
17	Callaghan, Finn	RR	81%	0	0	21	12	9	2	0	3	4	1	0	0	2	5
3	Coniglio, Stephen	HFFR	82%	3	1	19	12	7	4	0	1	0	2	0	1	0	3
37	Fonti, Joe	INT	75%	1	0	15	9	6	5	0	1	0	3	0	0	2	2
35	Gruzewski, Max	CHF	76%	1	0	10	5	5	3	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	2
43	Hamilton, Riley	HFFL	75%	0	0	7	4	3	0	0	1	1	2	0	1	0	0
27	Himmelberg, Harry	HBFL	92%	0	0	17	10	7	7	0	3	0	2	1	1	2	3
39	Idun, Connor	BPL	100%	0	0	27	18	9	12	0	0	0	4	0	3	4	1
25	Laverde, Jayden	BPR	80%	0	1	16	7	9	6	0	1	0	2	1	0	2	1
41	Madden, Nick	RU	71%	0	0	16	6	10	4	20	2	4	3	2	3	0	1
33	O'Halloran, Xavier	INT	84%	1	0	23	9	14	2	0	2	4	4	0	1	0	6
10	Oliver, Clayton	C	87%	1	0	29	10	19	7	0	5	5	7	1	4	2	6
28	Ough, Jack	FPR	55%	0	0	11	7	4	3	0	0	1	2	0	0	0	1
24	Rowston, Harry	INT	68%	0	0	13	9	4	7	0	1	0	1	1	0	0	1
18	Stone, Conor	INT	56%	1	0	8	3	5	3	0	1	0	5	0	2	1	2
20	Stringer, Jake	FPL	87%	1	1	13	8	5	5	0	3	1	1	2	0	1	2
15	Taylor, Sam	FB	78%	0	0	11	4	7	5	0	1	0	2	2	1	3	0
1	Thomas, Harvey	WR	81%	0	1	16	9	7	3	0	1	0	1	0	0	3	2
6	Whitfield, Lachie	CHB	75%	0	0	26	20	6	11	0	1	0	5	1	2	3	0
Rushed					3
Total (23 players)				13	10	373	209	164	111	25	40	25	59	16	23	36	51

Sydney

#	Player	Pos.	ToG%	GL	BH	DI	KI	HB	MK	HO	TA	CL	CR	FF	FA	RF	IF
26	Bice, Riley	HBFR	80%	0	0	14	9	5	2	0	1	1	2	0	0	4	1
22	Blakey, Nick	CHB	86%	1	2	24	20	4	4	0	0	0	4	2	1	7	2
16	Campbell, Braeden	HFFR	77%	1	0	15	6	9	2	0	2	1	0	0	0	0	3
25	Cootee, Billy	INT	66%	2	1	12	5	7	4	0	0	1	2	0	0	0	1
35	Curnow, Charlie	FF	85%	4	2	9	7	2	5	0	2	0	6	2	2	0	1
28	Edwards, Will	FB	86%	0	0	10	6	4	4	0	1	0	3	0	2	4	1
4	Grundy, Brodie	RU	70%	1	0	23	8	15	4	29	2	7	4	3	2	1	4
21	Gulden, Errol	C	82%	0	0	41	29	12	5	0	3	7	7	2	1	7	8
5	Heeney, Isaac (vc)	RR	77%	1	0	25	9	16	1	0	3	6	2	0	0	1	5
17	Jordon, James	HFFL	86%	0	1	6	2	4	1	0	4	1	0	2	0	0	1
32	Kyle, Harry	INT	75%	0	0	12	3	9	2	0	3	0	1	0	1	0	1
44	Lloyd, Jake	CHF	80%	1	1	11	5	6	1	0	3	1	2	0	2	0	1
30	McCartin, Tom	BPR	89%	0	0	9	4	5	3	0	0	0	1	0	0	2	1
6	McDonald, Logan	INT	79%	3	1	9	5	4	2	0	0	1	1	0	1	0	0
2	McLean, Hayden	FPR	65%	1	0	4	2	2	1	9	0	3	0	0	0	0	1
14	Mills, Callum (c)	BPL	84%	0	0	21	10	11	4	0	1	0	1	0	0	6	2
11	Papley, Tom	FPL	64%	2	1	17	13	4	4	0	0	0	3	3	0	0	4
24	Rampe, Dane	HBFL	86%	0	0	7	2	5	2	0	2	1	1	1	1	1	0
34	Roberts, Matt	WL	82%	0	1	13	7	6	5	0	3	0	1	0	0	1	4
10	Rosas, Malcolm	INT	71%	0	0	4	2	2	1	0	1	1	1	0	1	0	1
8	Rowbottom, James	INT	71%	2	1	23	10	13	1	0	11	8	2	4	0	1	6
13	Serong, Jai	WR	83%	1	0	11	3	8	2	0	1	0	2	1	1	0	0
1	Warner, Chad	RO	75%	1	2	32	16	16	2	0	3	7	5	3	1	1	9
Rushed					0
Total (23 players)				21	13	352	183	169	62	38	46	46	51	23	16	36	57

Legend

ToG%: Time-on-Ground Percentage, GL: Goals, BH: Behinds, DI: Disposals, KI: Kicks, HB: Handballs, MK: Marks, HO: Hitouts, TA: Tackles, CL: Clearances, CR: Clangers, FF: Free Kicks For, FA: Free Kicks Against, RF: Rebounds Inside 50, IF: Inside 50s

Player Line-Up

Greater Western Sydney							Coach: Adam Kingsley
BACK							FOLLOWER		INTERCHANGE
	14	C. Mills (c)	28	W. Edwards	30	T. McCartin	41	N. Madden	46	C. Brown
	28	J. Ough	5	A. Cadman	20	J. Stringer	17	F. Callaghan	37	J. Fonti
FORWARD							14	T. Bedford	33	X. O'Halloran
HALF-BACK									24	H. Rowston
	24	D. Rampe	22	N. Blakey	26	R. Bice			18	C. Stone
	3	S. Coniglio	35	M. Gruzewski	43	R. Hamilton
HALF-FORWARD
CENTRE
	34	M. Roberts	21	E. Gulden	13	J. Serong
	1	H. Thomas	10	C. Oliver	9	R. Angwin	FOLLOWER		INTERCHANGE
CENTRE							4	B. Grundy	25	B. Cootee
HALF-FORWARD							5	I. Heeney (vc)	32	H. Kyle
	17	J. Jordon	44	J. Lloyd	16	B. Campbell	1	C. Warner	6	L. McDonald
	7	L. Ash	6	L. Whitfield	27	H. Himmelberg			10	M. Rosas
HALF-BACK									8	J. Rowbottom
FORWARD
	11	T. Papley	35	C. Curnow	2	H. McLean
	25	J. Laverde	15	S. Taylor	39	C. Idun
BACK
Sydney							Coach: Dean Cox

Score Timeline

Quarter	Team	Scoring Event	Score			Time
Q1	SYDN	Braeden Campbell goal	0.0.0	-	1.0.6	00:32
	GWSY	Stephen Coniglio behind	0.1.1	-	1.0.6	01:42
	SYDN	Charlie Curnow goal	0.1.1	-	2.0.12	04:53
	SYDN	James Jordon behind	0.1.1	-	2.1.13	08:01
	SYDN	Charlie Curnow goal	0.1.1	-	3.1.19	10:31
	SYDN	James Rowbottom goal	0.1.1	-	4.1.25	11:50
	SYDN	Jai Serong goal	0.1.1	-	5.1.31	13:41
	GWSY	Xavier O'Halloran goal	1.1.7	-	5.1.31	18:53
	SYDN	James Rowbottom behind	1.1.7	-	5.2.32	19:59
	SYDN	Tom Papley goal	1.1.7	-	6.2.38	23:07
	SYDN	Brodie Grundy goal	1.1.7	-	7.2.44	24:50
	SYDN	Matt Roberts behind	1.1.7	-	7.3.45	26:27
	SYDN	Tom Papley behind	1.1.7	-	7.4.46	27:56
	GWSY	Stephen Coniglio goal	2.1.13	-	7.4.46	29:57
Q2	SYDN	Chad Warner behind	2.1.13	-	7.5.47	01:26
	GWSY	Toby Bedford behind	2.2.14	-	7.5.47	02:42
	SYDN	Chad Warner goal	2.2.14	-	8.5.53	04:41
	SYDN	Charlie Curnow behind	2.2.14	-	8.6.54	06:59
	GWSY	Jayden Laverde behind	2.3.15	-	8.6.54	08:40
	SYDN	Billy Cootee goal	2.3.15	-	9.6.60	10:32
	GWSY	Stephen Coniglio goal	3.3.21	-	9.6.60	12:23
	SYDN	Charlie Curnow goal	3.3.21	-	10.6.66	15:14
	SYDN	Billy Cootee goal	3.3.21	-	11.6.72	18:15
	SYDN	Charlie Curnow behind	3.3.21	-	11.7.73	19:54
	SYDN	Jake Lloyd behind	3.3.21	-	11.8.74	23:16
	SYDN	Logan McDonald behind	3.3.21	-	11.9.75	25:01
	GWSY	Callum Brown goal	4.3.27	-	11.9.75	27:19
	GWSY	Harvey Thomas behind	4.4.28	-	11.9.75	29:57
	SYDN	Logan McDonald goal	4.4.28	-	12.9.81	30:59
Q3	GWSY	Stephen Coniglio goal	5.4.34	-	12.9.81	00:51
	SYDN	Charlie Curnow goal	5.4.34	-	13.9.87	02:53
	GWSY	Rushed behind	5.5.35	-	13.9.87	09:42
	GWSY	Ryan Angwin goal	6.5.41	-	13.9.87	11:54
	SYDN	Logan McDonald goal	6.5.41	-	14.9.93	13:37
	GWSY	Ryan Angwin goal	7.5.47	-	14.9.93	15:24
	SYDN	Nick Blakey behind	7.5.47	-	14.10.94	17:38
	GWSY	Max Gruzewski goal	8.5.53	-	14.10.94	20:19
	SYDN	Tom Papley goal	8.5.53	-	15.10.100	21:29
	SYDN	Logan McDonald goal	8.5.53	-	16.10.106	23:35
	SYDN	Hayden McLean goal	8.5.53	-	17.10.112	25:16
	GWSY	Jake Stringer behind	8.6.54	-	17.10.112	29:45
	GWSY	Aaron Cadman behind	8.7.55	-	17.10.112	31:09
Q4	GWSY	Joe Fonti goal	9.7.61	-	17.10.112	00:18
	GWSY	Jake Stringer goal	10.7.67	-	17.10.112	02:35
	GWSY	Toby Bedford behind	10.8.68	-	17.10.112	04:58
	SYDN	Jake Lloyd goal	10.8.68	-	18.10.118	06:26
	GWSY	Rushed behind	10.9.69	-	18.10.118	08:32
	GWSY	Rushed behind	10.10.70	-	18.10.118	09:50
	SYDN	Billy Cootee behind	10.10.70	-	18.11.119	16:48
	SYDN	Isaac Heeney goal	10.10.70	-	19.11.125	17:41
	SYDN	James Rowbottom goal	10.10.70	-	20.11.131	20:43
	GWSY	Clayton Oliver goal	11.10.76	-	20.11.131	22:34
	GWSY	Conor Stone goal	12.10.82	-	20.11.131	24:28
	SYDN	Nick Blakey goal	12.10.82	-	21.11.137	26:32
	SYDN	Nick Blakey behind	12.10.82	-	21.12.138	28:53
	GWSY	Aaron Cadman goal	13.10.88	-	21.12.138	30:41
	SYDN	Chad Warner behind	13.10.88	-	21.13.139	32:21

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